Quinter Newswire

A Park man entered a plea to amended charges in the 2017 stabbing death of a Hoxie man and stabbing of a Quinter woman. Anthony Turner, 25, appeared Thursday morning before 23rd Judicial District Chief Judge Glenn Braun in Ellis County District Court.
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The Quinter woman started a new job at Fort Hays State University teaching English composition and a doctoral degree program, and took on a new challenge with "Little Spouse on the Prairie," her humorous sketch show airing each Sunday morning on High Plains Public Radio. And now she can call that show award-winning.
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Kris Kobach, Jeff Colyer, Wink Hartman, Tracey Mann, Ken Rahjes, and Derek Schmidt. All the heavy hitters on the Kansas GOP ticket rolled into Tiger Burgers at 700 Main Street in Hays on Saturday afternoon to plead with a rally of party faithful to find people to vote.
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He and his younger brother, Lachlan, and parents Brianna and Dan, all of WaKeeney, joined a handful of other volunteers at Shiloh Vineyard and Winery in Trego County to harvest the fruit off the vine Saturday morning. It was Finnegan's second time for a grape harvest.
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Friday's celebration is not one just for the campus, though, said Janette Meis, event planner and communication specialist in the FHSU President's Office. She also is chairwoman of the inaugural planning committee, a group of 19 faculty, staff, alumni and community members who have met since June.
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For nearly three quarters Friday night, the Osborne High School football team stood toe-to-toe with defending Eight-Man Division I state champion Hoxie in the Indians' home opener. Some miscues, though, a couple turnovers, and Hoxie's overall size and depth eventually won out as the Indians moved to 2-0 with a 52-20 win against the Bulldogs.
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The town of Grainfield might be small - around 250 people according to U.S. Census estimates - but when it comes to 4-H and the county fair, numbers are growing. The two 4-H clubs in the county - Quinter and Smoky River - have almost 90 members between them, and participation has increased during the last five years, fair board members said while gathered at the Gove County Fair earlier this month.
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Michael D. Golightley, 34, Larned, is charged with seven counts of damaging a protected computer and one count of threatening to damage a protected computer. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in March 2017 in Ellis County, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for Kansas.
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A trial by 12-person jury for Gove County manslaughter suspect Anthony Turner, 25, Park, is scheduled to begin July 16 and run through the 20th. The court proceedings are being held at the Trego County Courthouse and presided by Judge Glenn Braun of the 23rd Judicial District.
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According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Andrew Kuntz, 33, was driving a 2002 Ford F250 pickup west on Old U.S. Highway 40 2 miles east of Park at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday when he lost control of the vehicle.
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QUINTER This year's St. Francis boys' basketball team is completely different from the team a year ago that made a run at the Class 1A Division I state tournament in Hays. The one thing that is the same is Tate Busse.
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According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Braydon Anthony Farrar, 22, Westminster, Colo., was westbound on Interstate 70 approximately 3 miles west of Quinter at about 7:30 p.m. when he lost control of the 2003 Honda Civic he was driving. The car went off the right side of the road, down a steep embankment, rolling two and half times.
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